Best Practices for Teaching Mathematics

What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do

By: Randi Stone

From human number lines to sweet solutions, these strategies will enliven your math instruction!

Packed with mathematics lessons that work, this new volume features innovative techniques from the classrooms of award-winning teachers in diverse elementary, middle, and high school settings. Explore strategies for motivating students with animated learning icons, money-based systems, and much more. Linked with companion volumes for teaching writing and science, this resource for new and veteran educators offers:

Tried-and-true best practices modeled by leading mathematics teachers
Strategies for engaging students before and after state tests
A special lesson-study chapter for teachers

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Grade Level: K-12
ISBN: 9781412924559
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2007
Page Count: 104
Publication date: April 05, 2007

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Description

From human number lines to sweet solutions, these strategies will enliven your math instruction!

In this new volume from Randi Stone, award-winning teachers model mathematics lessons that work and demonstrate innovative methods that have been field-tested in diverse elementary, middle, and high school classrooms.

An ideal resource for new and veteran teachers and linked with companion volumes featuring strategies for teaching writing and science, this resource offers:

Strategies for motivating students with animated learning icons, money-based systems, human number lines, sweet solutions, and much more
Techniques for engaging students before and after state tests
A special lesson study chapter focused on win-win professional practice for teachers

This concise text will become one of your most-used guides for clarifying math concepts, increasing math vocabulary, strengthening problem-solving skills, and inspiring students' excitement about math in the real world!

Key features

18tried-and-tested best practices for teaching mathematics to elementary, middle school, and high school learners.
Award-winning classroom teachers model and explaintechniques that includeusinganimated learning icons, money-based systems, human number lines, "sweet" solutions, and much more
Features a special lesson study chapter that invites readers to participate in a true win-win professional experience
Companion volumes feature best practices for teaching Writing and Science

Author(s)

Randi Stone

Randi Stoneis the author ofnine Corwin Press books: Best Practices for Teaching Reading: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do, Best Practices for Teaching Social Studies: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do, Best Practices for Teaching Writing: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do, Best Practices for Teaching Mathematics: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do, and Best Practices for Teaching Science: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do. She is a graduate of Clark University, Boston University, and Salem State College. She completed her doctorate in education at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell.

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1. Using a Money-Based Discipline or Reward System in an Elementary Classroom

2. Number of the Year Award

3. Technology-Enhanced Second-Grade Math

4. Getting Zoned-Out Students to Tune In

5. Letting Student Strengths Lead Math Problem Solving

6. Using Animated Learning Icons to Capture and Enhance Instruction

7. Honoring the Middle School Student

8. Sweet Solutions in Math Make a Difference in the World

9. But . . . Does It Make Sense?